Bluegrass Banjo Lesson: Blue Ridge Cabin Home
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- Опубліковано 21 жов 2024
- Hear this tune played with guitar rhythm backup (slow, medium, fast) starting at 13:13. Guitar chords are provided on-screen.
This is an instructional 5-string bluegrass banjo video lesson teaching my version of the banjo break for the popular Flatt and Scruggs bluegrass song, "Blue Ridge Cabin Home." This tutorial is similar to Scrugg's break on the 1955 version, though not exact. On this video I teach the banjo break lick by lick, phrase by phrase, using on-screen tablature, then I put it together -- slowly at first, then faster toward the end, adding rhythm guitar audio overlay and on-screen chord prompts.
Flatt and Scruggs capoed on 2 and tuned up a half tone (or so I've heard and read). Bluegrass Album Band capoed up 3, key of Bb. Flatt and Scrugg's original 1955 version can be found here: • Flatt & Scruggs / Blue...
The tune was fairly obscure until it was picked up by the Bluegrass Album Band in 1980 or so: • (1) Blue Ridge Cabin H...
New to the capo? I found a nice video explaining use of both the main capo and the fifth-string spikes here: • Free Banjo Lesson: Cap...
Free tab sheets (PDF) and play-along tracks (MP3) for this and many other tunes are available at my website, www.littlerockbanjo.com.
Hope you enjoy.
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Thank you William!! Great!
Immer sehr schön gespielt!! Grüsse aus der Schweiz!, Severin
Vielen Dank!
I like all of William's lessons. I am blind and find his instruction easy to follow. Thanks so much.
I watched the video when you first posted it Bill. Now I've come back for another visit and it's a lot easier second time around. Thanks for a great tutorial.
Great teacher. Thanks for making it so accessible.
Great lesson. Thank you
Oh Boy!...Thanks William. Every video you drop feels like christmas morning to me...can't wait to dive in!...thank you, sir.
Well done Bill, Everyone must learn this its kind of the 'Bluegrass National Anthem'
Thank you this is a really great lesson
I just finished learning Mountain Dew and currently working on Blackberry Blossom. Now I need to learn this tune. Bill I wish you would show us how to play Nashiville Skyline Rag. I have been patiently waiting for this tune to be covered. Thank you for all you do to bring new players to the banjo. Thanks for simplfying your lessons. I appreciate them greatly.
Thanks Bill, one more outstanding lesson!
This is a great lesson, thank you so much. You have really helped me in my journey to learning this thing.
Thank you for this great lesson! I love your arrangement of it here.
Great lesson! I enjoyed the different speeds with the guitar back up at the end! Nice to see how it all fts together!
Hi Bill, another Swiss fan saying Thank You. Your lessons are always tremendous fun! Very much appreciated. Best regards, Jochen
As always, Thanks Bill! This is one I've been working on and you have given me the tools to sharpen it up.
Great lesson Bill. Making an instrument I've struggled with seem easy.
"Seem" being the operative word :-)
Great teaching!!!! love listening
im just started playing the banjo ! your videos help me trough it. so much thanks ! its a little bit difficult but i can play verry slowly , you are my sunshine :P
Howdy Bill. I learned this your way and my teacher agreed it was a great arrangement and great instruction and to keep going with it. We like the three practice speeds and the camera angles really help.
HI Willie!! what beautiful song and simple y clara your explicación, like always, and you speak slow, ... is good for me ,...I can understand your class, hahaha!!! A big hug for you, and THANK YOU!!!, God Bless you my FRIEND!!!, José Luis from Buenos Aires, Argentina!!! ( Coment in spanglish, hahaha!!)
Thank you! Your arrangements really work for me. Maybe we'll get lucky and get some Christmas pieces? again, much appreciaton.
Sir! When Scruggs did the famous G lick used in Foggy MTN, did he fret the 4th string or pull off it? The 4th string before the end of the run.
Awesome
I've spent the last 3 months learning this and have it pretty much exactly as per the lesson, thanks Bill it's really helped me progress. Thing is, now Ive learned it, I wanna sing it too and the words don't seem to go with the tune as taught, even your own version which I downloaded and can play along with, I can't seem to sing along with it, but can easily with say the Osbourne Bros version. Had anyone been able to sing along with this version ? Love to hear how it goes. Thanks again for an awesome lesson ! Onwards to the next tune 😛
Try just learning and playin backup rolls or vamps, sprinkled with licks while you sing it. Then take a break from singing as you play this break.
MORE J.D CROWE OFF OF THE BLUEGRASS ALBUM BAND PLEASE!
Thank you for the well explained lessons , I wish to have your opinion on an entry level banjo , tanglewood twb pro5 , yay or nay ? I have an old sovereign but the neck is so skinny it’s not going well for me
Never held one in my hands, but it looks like another Chinese banjo -- nicely put together, clean workmanship, sounds OK, not great. I wouldn't expect too much tone in that price range. Does have a tone ring... maybe someone else can say if it's a hoop or Mastertone style ring.
fantastic!
Hey Bill,
I’ve been following your lessons for awhile now and I would really like for you to cover the Scruggs version of down the road in open G. I really like the tune, but I can’t seem to find a good tab anywhere. Thanks so much and great videos!
Thank you 😚😄😆
yo william do you think you could break down how the banjo player "Morgan O'kane" plays, i dont know if this is your style or not but it would be really helpful if i could get some insight from an expert :)
Am I seeing this wrong? Or are your pulloffs actually pushoffs? For example, in the second measure the 3-2 pull off actually looks in the video like you are pushing up towards the top of the neck (towards the sky), on the 3 then letting go to sound the two. If I'm seeing this right, it is actually something I've never seen before. I've been playing guitar for decades but am brand new to banjo and I've never seen this done on guitar before. If I am seeing this right, shouldn't it then be called a "pushoff"? Or is the term "pulloff" just generic banjo jargon for either a pull off or a pushoff, and last question, If this pushoff is actually what is happening, is this a common technique in banjo playing or just something you uniquely do?
If this is NOT what's going on, the only other thing I can guess is that you recover so fast from the pull off and your pulling finger gets back over the string so fast afterwards that is actually looks like you are pushing when you're not.
Someone please confirm or deny this. I'm just trying to learn. Thanks.
"pulloff" is generic string-instrument jargon for either a pushoff or pulloff, but a downward pulling motion is definitely more common. if you google something like "guitar push-off versus pull-off" you'll find some discussions about this (usually centered around the topic of economy of motion). but both variations are considered a pull-off because they are achieving the same general note-manipulation. I personally get more force (and sustain) from "pushing" off, and depending on the picking pattern it can be more economical to push-off in certain situations, but it's a little less natural of a movement which is probably why you don't see it as much. and that natural downwards motion means that I usually pull-off in the traditional way... but on banjo I find it particularly useful to "push" upwards like in this video to create a bit more distinction between notes (due to the increased force I get).
You could just as easily use a traditional pull-off in that measure and it will sound fine, especially if you are more comfortable with pulling off with the traditional downwards motion most often associated with the "pulloff" notation
if that makes sense
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